something to talk about. plus, more of my exclusive interview today with congressman benny thompson who s the chair of the january six committee. we ll give you more the hunter before we talk about everything from where the country goes now to the direct line he sees from january 6 to 4 for president trump. and, southwest airlines is finally getting their travel troubles under control. after leaving thousands of passengers stranded for days. we are talking to the vice president of the southwest flight attendants union, about how this debacle might have been avoided. i am simone sanders townsend and i have something to say. . we after years of legal wrangling, americans are finally getting a look at former president donald trump s financial records from before and even during his time as president, now, donald trump infamously bugged nearly 50 years of tradition by refusing to just close this financial records to the public. and, this is a problem because nearly every presiden
the airline is still canceling thousands of flights, passengers are still outraged, and we learned the southwest airlines got a seven billion dollar bail out during the pandemic, so what did they use all that money for? but let s begin with joy santos and more of his lies getting exposed. the republican congressman elect just cannot seem to get his own story straight. he lied about going to college. he lied about graduating from college. he lied about who he s worked for. he lied about being jewish, and cnn s kate file just up new lies will bring to you in a moment. now, federal prosecutors are looking into is duke s finances. a source tells cnn that they are investigating the congressman elect s financial situation that seems to rapidly swing from being too broke to pay rent to being a multi millionaire. the district attorney of nassau county new york also says that she has sent us on her radar, but wait, there is more, cnn has confirmed that was charged with embezzlement an
nightmare is unfolding in buffalo, new york , after days of blistering cold weather in nearly fifty two inches of snow ,dozens are now dead. thousands are without power. new york s governor referred to driving conditions as a war zone. police, national guard are going door to door, plowing their way through the snow to perform welfare checks. and the death toll in western new york is expected to rise. meanwhile, thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed, especially on southwest airlines. which is stranded americans and their luggage all over the country in what is being described as a colossal failure at every level. here now with a full report. fox wethers, katie, burne, katy . some southwest fliers never made it home for the holidays. many of them are still stranded tonight. and for those who gave up on flying altogether, they decided to drive home instead. now they re showing up to airports like this, looking for their luggage and being told they won t be seein
did not get the merry christmas citizens wanted this year. for some , it was a downright scary christmas. there were many cities where santa stayed in the air. he was afraid of getting sleigh jacked. i think we report isolated crime events throughout the year, particularly in l.a. and new york. but the national crime picture often gets ignored. and when you look at the year it was, it takes your breath away, or at least it should. this is video of linda frickey, a seventy three year old grandmother from new orleans. who was in her car when four teens rushed it, pushing her out. frickey got caught in a safety belt and they dragged her for about a block, severing her arm from her body. she bled to death in the street. at least they captured her for tackers. but so many times these cases go unsolved. this is just one of the more than two hundred and sixty homicide in new orleans since the start of the year. my hometown of new orleans is set to become the murder capital of
so with that in mind, it s the worth remembering that one hundred years ago, memphis a boom was one of the richest, best organized cities in the country. it ha hadd a booming economy. it had beautiful municipalhan parks, a lot of them more than a hundred. it had one of the most modern te sanitation systems in worle take something w for granted now. but when yellow fever was real, no one took it for granted. memphis was such a bigwas th deal that in fact, was the mis the informal capital of an entire american region. the mississippi deltanot an,t not anymore. in fact, by last year, i f b you went to memphis, it was hard to believe that any of that had ever been true at any point. because by that point and nowa memphis had become a husk and a highly threatening one in 2020si one , according to federal, statistics, memphis, tennessee, was the most dangerous city in the united states . talast year.w much it recorded a total of three hundred and forty two murders. no?w, how